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I’ve always maintained that it isn’t the form that’s going to make the difference. It isn’t the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it’s human beings that will make it.

Cesar Chavez

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
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Principle Violence
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
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Greatness Human Person Suffering
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
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Acceptance Patience
It’s amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease.
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Excitement Moon People
Every time we sit at a table at night or in the morning to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.
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Children Enjoyment Man Morning Night Oppression Time Women
You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
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Education Learning Reading Yourself
We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate. The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, It is always about people.
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Believe Fight Food People
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.
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Defeat Hands People Suffering Talk Violence
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
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Dignity Himself Human Respect
When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.
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Himself Man Place Woman
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents’ professions as other children are of theirs.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Sacrifice
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.
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Alone Heart Justice Peace People Struggle Violence Yourself
There are many reasons for why a man does what he does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.
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Expectation Himself Leadership Man People Reason
Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
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Experience Inspirational Yourself
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.
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Learning Life Live Violence
You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.
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Enough Help Need Strong Yourself

I’ve always maintained that it isn’t the form that’s going to make the difference. It isn’t the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it’s human beings that will make it.

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I’ve always maintained that it isn’t the form that’s going to make the difference. It isn’t the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it’s human beings that will make it.

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